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The Skeptics Guide #851 - Oct 30 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Choice Is Nuclear or Fossil Fuel

We've basically already used up our carbon budget at this point. We got about six yearsof carbon budget leftt i to stay below the one point five c goalo, which everyone's pretty much given up once it's not politically plausible. If we want to go to two point cup of the warming above prenutural levels, to two point o the carbon budget is going to be used up. So now we're not going to be a hundred % renewa in six years, or even in 20 years. It's not going to happen. The choice is really between nuclear and fossil fuel. What path are we going to take?

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